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# XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk.

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XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 139 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/1/) — \_Source\_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere about the year 1860.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--There is a chap-book version which is very poor; it is given by Mr. E. S. Hartland, \_English Folk and Fairy Tales\_ (Camelot Series), p. 35, \_seq.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/3/) — \_ In this, when Jack arrives at the top of the Beanstalk, he is met by a fairy, who gravely informs him that the ogre had stolen all his possessions from Jack's father.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/4/) — The object of this was to prevent the tale becoming an encouragement to theft!
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/5/) — I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/6/) — For the Beanstalk elsewhere, see Ralston, \_Russian Folk Tales\_, 293-8.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/63/7/) — Cosquin has some remarks on magical ascents (i. 14).

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